Meanings
plural Klingonists
- A specialist or speaker of the Klingon language.
If a controversy breaks out among scholars about the dating of the Great Vowel Shift, or among Klingonists about the correct translation of 'loaves and fishes', the effect on most people's lives is negligible.
1995, Deborah Cameron, Verbal hygiene, page 2231 more example
It is certainly true that many Klingonists use only the Roman orthography (I myself do not use pIqaD much, if at all). But then, some people write Sanskrit only with Devanagari characters, and never use other Bramhi scripts for it, yet we still encode Sanskrit-specific characters in those other scripts.
2016, Mark Shoulson, “pIqaD (Klingon) and its Usage”, in Unicode, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021, page 2
Origin
Translations
Dutch klingonist, klingoniste
- klingonistspecialist or speaker of Klingon
- klingonistespecialist or speaker of Klingon
Esperanto klingonisto
- klingonistospecialist or speaker of Klingon
French klingoniste
- klingonistespecialist or speaker of Klingon
German Klingonist, Klingonistin
- Klingonistspecialist or speaker of Klingon
- Klingonistinspecialist or speaker of Klingon
Polish klingonista, klingonistka
- klingonistaspecialist or speaker of Klingon
- klingonistkaspecialist or speaker of Klingon
Russian клингонист, клингонистка
- клингонист (klingonist)specialist or speaker of Klingon
- клингонистка (klingonistka)specialist or speaker of Klingon
Spanish klingonista
- klingonistaspecialist or speaker of Klingon
Cite this entry
Klingonist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Klingonist
“Klingonist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Klingonist. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Klingonist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Klingonist.
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